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Not only in March Brain Injury Awareness Month Association, is also Women’s History month. Women have made great strides toward equality, and one of these results is the participation in the military. Not only do women have played an important role in the home front during wartime, but also active duty abroad. Although it seems that the role of women in the armed forces is a relatively new concept of women around the world were actually involved in military operations for thousands of years. Women in war do not go back that far in the U.S., but their contribution extends further than you might think.

Technically speaking, women are credited to serve in the army as far as the American Revolution. Molly pitcher “(named after carrying jugs of water to soldiers on the battlefield) was the second woman known to take up arms after her husband was wounded in battle. General Washington gave him an arrest warrant as a non-commissioned officer. The first woman to serve is credited Margaret Corbin. After man, Corbin was killed, she was injured while shooting his gun in the United Kingdom. Margaret Corbin was the first woman to receive a military pension disability. Women began to follow the Continental Army. “Many of these supporters were mothers, wives and children of soldiers who were unable to support themselves after their son / men / fathers had left for war. General Washington decided to link these women nurses of the Continental Army cooks and water carriers for the soldiers. It is the oldest known example of women support military.